Gecko 1.9

Firefox 3

Meeting notes for Firefox 3 are here. If you are working on Firefox 3 please either drop into the meetings or post to dev.apps.firefox newsgroup.

Other

IT

airbag/breakpad discussions, working to support initial server specs

DST fixes

build support

taking tickets now for level 1 support

adding 6x machines

upgrading vmware and adding memory

mxr migration

only positive feedback - looking to migrate soon (tbd)

looking for more feedback

AMO - supporting the team, releasing soon

Sean started today - office/desktop support

Build

IT first level support of Tinderboxen going well; we had a few bugs filed last week, and the process worked well.

The QA unit testing boxen needed a clobber this weekend, which ended up closing the tree. This unit testing tinderbox is not actually a tinderbox; it's a BuildBot reporting into Tinderbox. As such, it doesn't listen to any of the Build:ClobberingATinderbox support, nor is it part of the IT Oncall support infrastructure. We're working on fixing that. Original bug was 373510.

Coop has gotten SeaMonkey building from the new Macs in the community giving network; just a reminder that pawn, binus, boxset, hilo will be turned off at the end of April; replacement hardware is available in the colo.

The Free Software builds have returned; details in my blog post. They are en-US only and do not have updates published. One issue is that Mac builds aren't available, due to bugs in the UB packaging; this is bug 372859.

FF3 test planning. Setting up the list of key new features, rough effort, and name os QA engineer that will be covering the feature. [tchung]

Test Tools and Infrastructure

tracking down an intermittent problem that seems to be related to a failure seen with the buildbot testing infrastructure. See bug 372960 [robcee]

Breakpad: Working with bsmedberg regarding reporting requirements to help dev team. Started planning work to update crash reports for Breakpad. [jay]

Community

Had a very successful test day on Friday March 9th. Also see the results page. We had 13 active testers. which is about double the normal numbers. The theme was testing critical bugs for Firefox 1.5.0.11/2.0.0.3. [jay, all]

Updated Mozilla QA Community wiki page. Rearranged sections for better viewing. Added Growing the Mozilla QA Community for tracking ideas and progress with that initiative. [jay]

We are merging bug fixes based on feedback into preview -- we don't plan a conventional freeze before Thursday as there are no widescale changes being made, just higher level changes based on feedback.

If you'd like to "play" with the tools, please visit the stage server.

Deployment will happen on March 15th as planned, pending availability/approval of IT

Bouncer2

oremj ran some load tests, memory issue and load issue on DB have been fixed

oremj also rewrote the main bounce script in Python but improvements weren't astronomical so we'll stick with PHP for now

(Break|air)(pad|bag)

Introduced to socorro, breakpad implementation, working with bsmedberg and team -- thanks to rsayre for getting morgamic up to speed

More on reporter and documentation for IT this week

Build automation

Looked at config sync with bootstrap, more on that this week -- see bug 366973